Web-tip.



R. A. MOORE WEB TIP.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19, 1915.

,l 172,478, I Patented Feb. 22, 1916. e

v Inventor; by

111B COLUMBIA PLANDGRAPH (0., WASHINGTON, D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROSWELL A. MOORE, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATERBURY BUCKLE COMPANY, OF WATERIBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CON- NECTICUT.

WEB-TIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 22,1916.

Application filed June 19, 1915. Serial No. 35,065.

My invention relates to tips for web ends,

which engage a buckle or other device and my object is to so improve and perfect the tip patented by me on March 2nd, 1915, No. 1,130,100 that it will be more readily adaptable to certain uses than the tip of that patent.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved tip on a webend; Fig. 2 a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. l and Fig. 3 a view of the tipped web end on a buckle.

The tip consists of a piece of metal folded on itself and clenched to the web end as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. tion is depressed out of the plane of the body of the tip at 3. This tipped end with the depression 3 has been placed in a buckle and when the buckle was closed the tipped end could not be withdrawn because the ef fective thickening, due to the depression, prevented withdrawal from the buckle. 1

use on arm bands and the like, this tip was found, in practice, to hold well against motion which would tend to withdraw it from the buckle during adjustment, but on attempting to shorten the band the tipped end slid along with the main body of the web. In short, the tip was locked against motion in one direction by the depression, but was free to move in the other direction. To

The central porovercome this defect, I have provided one side of the tip 1 with lugs or ears which lugs are bent over the back bar 5 of the buckle so that the tip is on one side and the lugs on the other. In practice, this bending occurs when the buckle is closed after webbing, so that no extra operation is required.

In use the web end 6 is turned over the bar 5 and parallels the tip, the freer-each (not shown) passing between the webbed back and lever front of the buckle as in my prior patent. Under these conditions, the depression 3 prevents withdrawal of the web from the buckle while the lugs 4-4; prevent its sliding along the free reach in adjusting. In short, the combined effect of the depression and lugs firmly locks the t pped end against motion in either direction.

I'claim:

As a new article of manufacture, the combination of a web and a rigid tip on the end thereof, a portion of said tip being depressed out of the plane of the main body of the tip, the tipped end being of substantially the same thickness throughout, an ear on one edge of the tip, adapted to be bent over the attaching bar of a buckle with the body of the tip on the other side, whereby movement of the tipped end in either direction will be prevented.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROSWELL A. MOORE.

Vitnesses W.-T. BRONSON,

EMILY FRANEK.

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